But the last name, overlooked by Mr.Shandy, is no whit less important as a condition of success.

Family names, we must recollect, are but inherited nicknames; and if the _sobriquet_ were applicable to the ancestor, it is most likely applicable to the descendant also.

You would not expect to find Mr.M'Phun acting as a mute, or Mr.M'Lumpha excelling as a professor of dancing.
Therefore, in what follows, we shall consider names, independent of whether they are first or last.

And to begin with, look what a pull _Cromwell_ had over _Pym_--the one name full of a resonant imperialism, the other, mean, pettifogging, and unheroic to a degree.

Who would expect eloquence from _Pym_--who would read poems by _Pym_--who would bow to the opinion of _Pym_?
He might have been a dentist, but he should never have aspired to be a statesman.